True/False Announces 2018 Lineup

For its 15th edition, the doc-centric, hybrid-friendly annual True/False Film Fest has unveiled a lineup of 40 features, with no less than six world premieres. Black Mother, Khalik Allah’s keenly-awaited follow-up to Field Niggas, is one, as is América, the feature debut from Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll (profiled in last year’s 25 New Faces of Film). Here’s the lineup; shorts will be announced tomorrow, with the full schedule released on Saturday. For more information, visit the festival’s website.

Adriana’s Pact (dir. Lissette Orozco; 2017)

The director idolized her glamorous aunt, whose political past holds dark secrets. (Presented by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy)

América (dirs. Chase Whiteside & Erick Stoll; 2018)

A colorful trio of Mexican brothers are called home to take care of their grandmother in this playful and tender family portrait.

American Animals (dir. Bart Layton; 2018)

A group of larcenous college students obsess about freeing a rare edition of Audubon’s “Birds of America” in this white-knuckled heist film.

António e Catarina (dir. Cristina Haneș; 2017)

Under cover of the night “António” and “Catarina” tiptoe around each other in this introspective character study.

Artemio (dir. Sandra Luz López Barroso, 2017)

In this lushly photographed film, an Americanized mother and son return to their Mexican village where the telephone becomes a lifeline.

Bisbee ’17 (dir. Robert Greene; 2018)

Robert Greene creatively reimagines a dark chapter in labor history when organizing miners were sent packing.

Black Mother(dir. Khalik Allah; 2018)

A spiritual journey through Jamaica, the island in the sun, a place of unparalleled resilience and beauty.

Caniba (dirs. Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor; 2017)

This disturbing slice-of-life probes the limits of our understanding of Issei Sagawa, an admitted murderer and cannibal, and his caretaker brother Jun.

Combat Obscura (dir. Miles Lagoze; 2018)

The daily lives of Marines in Afghanistan as filmed by active duty combat cameramen from the ultimate insider’s perspective.